Court case over controversial Cork incinerator postponed until March 2019
October 24th, 2018
The High Court judicial review of An Bord Pleanála’s (ABP) decision to grant planning permission for a controversial incinerator in Ringaskiddy has...
Environmental group warns OPW over Bandon flood relief works
October 24th, 2018
An environmental group has warned the Office of Public Works (OPW) to stop operation on Bandon River or face a potential legal...
Eating less meat crucial to prevent climate catastrophe, new study finds
Eating less meat is crucial to prevent a climate catastrophe, a new study has found.
The study in the journal Nature counts deforestation, water paucity...
Hundreds protest at the Dail to demand urgent climate action
Hundreds of citizens held a demonstration in front of Dáil Éireann on Tuesday to demand rapid and ambitious action from the Irish Government to...
Universities across Ireland set to go plastic free on Wednesday
October 15th, 2018
Sixteen third level institutions in Ireland will go plastic-free this Wednesday as part of a sick of plastic environmental campaign.
University College Cork...
Experts, not activists, the most vocal critics of State’s carbon tax faux pas
October 10th, 2018
Just two months ago, Leo Varadkar said that it was time to finally “grasp the nettle” and raise our relatively low carbon...
Court orders Netherlands to make deeper carbon cuts in landmark case
October 11th, 2018
A landmark climate decision in the Dutch courts has ruled that the Government must reduce its emissions by 25 per cent by...
Ireland shows lack of appetite for increasing EU climate targets
October 11th, 2018
The Irish government did not support a push for increasing the EU’s climate target to limit global temperature rise at an EU...
Budget 2019: Climate experts, economists and activists ‘shocked’ by carbon tax exclusion
October 8th, 2018
The Government’s U-turn on increasing the carbon tax in Budget 2019 is both “shocking and depressing”, one of Ireland’s leading climate economists...
Environmental NGOs ‘concerned’ with reports of row back on carbon tax
October 8th, 2018
Reports that the Government is set to row back on hikes in carbon and diesel taxes in tomorrow’s budget is deeply concerning, Ireland’s...